Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 30
The Emperor’s orders are that, unless a satisfactory explanation is given to him before six o’clock this evening and the missing soles produced, the Minister is to be beheaded.
Who acts: missing soles, Emperor · What happens: give, produce, behead, order · To what, where: orders, Emperor, Minister, evening
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (missing soles, Emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 orders | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Emperor | case |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 given | mark |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 8 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 13 given | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 explanation | det |
| 10 | satisfactory | satisfactory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 explanation | amod |
| 11 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux:pass |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 given | obl |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 six | advmod |
| 17 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 o’clock | nummod |
| 18 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 evening | det |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 beheaded | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 soles | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 soles | det |
| 23 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 soles | amod |
| 24 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 evening | conj |
| 25 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 soles | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 produced | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Minister | det |
| 28 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 produced | obl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 beheaded | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 32 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 given | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the Emperor's orders | Emperor | a satisfactory explanation nsubj:pass; six o’clock obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient o'clock=Theme | |||
| 2 | produce | participle | the missing soles not said here | the Minister | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | behead | present · passive | this evening and the missing soles | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | order | the Emperor | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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